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James Graff

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A former senior editor for Time, James was bureau chief in Paris, Brussels, Chicago and Vienna. He has also reported from the Middle East, Mexico and the Arctic.

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Canada Breathes Golden Sigh of Relief

posted: 29 days 11 hours ago

(Feb. 15) -- Breaking a dry spell that started at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada finally landed its first gold medal on home soil Sunday when Montrealer Alexandre Bilodeau skied to vict ...

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Amid American Malaise, Canada Envy Returns

posted: 41 days 6 hours ago

(Feb. 3) -- When political acrimony and dysfunction crescendo in the United States, Americans of a certain persuasion tend to look longingly at the relative calm and order they perceive across its no ...

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Clinton Offers Surprise Deal at Climate Conference

posted: 89 days 11 hours ago

(Dec. 17) -- With the clock winding down and the hosts of the Copenhagen climate conference reportedly abandoning hope of a deal, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a possibly g ...

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Cap-and-Trade Model Loses Billions to Fraud

posted: 96 days 3 hours ago

(Dec. 10) -- As negotiators grapple in Copenhagen over a global scheme to curtail carbon emissions, Europe's own iteration was revealed as an easy mark for organized crime. The development could lend ...

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Iran Blasted for Human Rights and Academic Abuses

posted: 96 days 8 hours ago

(Dec. 10) -- Amnesty International accused Iranian authorities Thursday of perpetrating the worst human rights abuses in more than 20 years as they try to tamp down broad dissent following President ...

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Obama's Iran Strategy Hits Great Wall of China

posted: 118 days 7 hours ago

(Nov. 18) -- The Obama administration's shot at a win-win stratagem for reining in Iran's nuclear program looks more doomed than ever this week, raising doubts that sanctions against the country can ...

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Does Karzai's Corruption Offer Obama an Out?

posted: 124 days 4 hours ago

(Nov. 12) -- He was once, if too briefly, a hero. But now Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been cast in the role of spoiler as President Barack Obama mulls over a list of unpalatable options for Afg ...

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Angela Merkel Comes to Washington

posted: 133 days 5 hours ago

As the first German chancellor in more than a half-century to address a joint session of Congress, Angela Merkel had history on her side Tuesday. Few politicians can speak more convincingly than this ...

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Blood and Bluster on Iran-Pakistan Border

posted: 140 days 5 hours ago

Iran is preparing its next dodge to defend its nuclear program; Pakistan is waging war on a Taliban faction in the wild frontier territory of South Waziristan. So it seemed wise for both countries to ...

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Wariness Persists over Iran Nuke Deal

posted: 146 days 7 hours ago

Is Iran finally playing fair? The draft agreement announced Wednesday after more than two days of negotiations in Vienna puts the international community tantalizingly close to a measure that would ...

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